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On 04/12/2020 01:40, Dale wrote: |
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> Also, our local power company is about to start rolling out internet |
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> service. It's done with fiber and the slowest package, 200MBs/sec, is |
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> over 100 times faster than my current DSL. It only costs $4.00 a month |
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> more than what I'm paying now. Their fastest package is 1GBs/sec. |
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> Dang, I can't even imagine that sort of speed. Another good thing, same |
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> speed BOTH ways. I can upload videos just as fast as I can download |
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> one. Yeppie!! |
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> My only thing now, I hope it works like DSL/cable/etc and just requires |
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> me to plug in a ethernet cable. In other words, OS doesn't matter. I |
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> suspect it does but we will see. |
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We went to fibre recently. They put a new box on the wall which takes an |
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RJ-45 instead of the previous situation where ADSL took an RJ-11. |
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All the blurb says "works with BT Hub 6", which we already had, so I |
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didn't bother getting a new router (you had to pay for the "latest and |
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greatest" Hub 7). |
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When the guy installed it - "where's you new router, it won't work with |
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this one". No apparently you can't just plug it into any old network |
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port, the router needs a dedicated WAN link and the Hub 6 came in two |
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versions, one with an ADSL modem and one with a fibre uplink. |
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So it sounds like you need to swap your ADSL router for a cable router |
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or whatever it is, but apart from that you'll be fine. |
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(And then some sales guy working on behalf of BT knocked on the door, |
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was surprised to find we were already BT customers, and rigged up some |
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deal that (a) threw in a Hub-7 free, (b) changed our calling plan to |
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remove the one-hour limit and add free calls to mobiles, and (c) knocked |
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about £2 off our monthly bill!!!) |
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Cheers, |
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